Top 520 Left Quotes

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O’Brien
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
Jules Massenet
Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can’t understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Ty Cobb
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Adam Grant
When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.
Abby Johnson
The times change, and if you don’t change with them, you get left behind.
Bradley Walsh
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert Hoover
I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand.
David Berman
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people – some well-known, most totally unknown – who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
David Crystal
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he’d be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.
E-40
My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.
Shinzo Abe
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Slavoj Zizek
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
Adriana Trigiani
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I’m a human being.
Brigitte Bardot
The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.

The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
Vitor Belfort
Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, ‘Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.’ Since then, I started to think differently.
Jack Ma
I’m probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what’s not in the character, until I’m left with what is. If that makes sense. That’s probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.
Molly Parker
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
Leon Russell
I am representing here – the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Kailash Satyarthi
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert Hoover
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
C. L. R. James
I must visit a psychiatrist to check if there’s any sanity left in me.
Sherlyn Chopra
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Liverpool gave me a second home. I was 24, I left my team, my town, and I went there. My memories there are just amazing. I have no words to thank them enough, and that’s why I will always be a fan.
Fernando Torres
I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
America has much greatness left in her.
Rand Paul
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
Pete Sampras
Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Hillary Clinton
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
Adlai Stevenson II
What is it they want from the man that they didn’t get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he’s done with his work, what’s any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
William Gaddis
The Arctic has huge glaciers, frozen waterfalls and floating ice. This is scenery on which man has left no mark, which has stayed unchanged for centuries, wild, bleak, hauntingly beautiful; it is a part of God’s creation we have made no effort to tame.
Ann Widdecombe
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
I wake up every day thinking, ‘I just can’t do it anymore.’ There’s nothing left to say, and I’m completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I’m on again.
Shane McAnally
I am humbled and inspired by the ultimate sacrifice made by so many Mississippians on behalf of our nation, and the families they left behind.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
I love my stuff – you’re not supposed to say that. But because I’m performer as well as a writer, I’m constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes – I find them all over the scores.
Jason Robert Brown
When you work hard anything can happen, and I’m just trying to go into 2019 starting where I left off in 2018.
Zack Steffen
For a person of my sensibility, you’re only left with the Democratic party.
Neil Peart
I didn’t appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.
Rosie Perez
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularl

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my comrades are suffering.
Mikis Theodorakis
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons – but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.
Susan Burton
I never left doo wop.
Aaron Neville
I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don’t suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.
Charles Lindbergh
I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.
Chesa Boudin
The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.
M. S. Swaminathan
Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
Malorie Blackman
In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it’s bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it’s good luck. But I don’t like black cats!
Nuno Espirito Santo
Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.
Sun Yat-sen
Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
Regina Brett